I have written a simple code to export dataset to excel without using excel object by using System.IO.StreamWriter.
Below is the code which will read all tables from dataset and write them to sheets one by one. I took help from http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/9380/Export-a-DataSet-to-Microsoft-Excel-without-the-us article.
public static void exportToExcel(DataSet source, string fileName)
{
const string endExcelXML = "</Workbook>";
const string startExcelXML = "<xml version>\r\n<Workbook " +
"xmlns=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet\"\r\n" +
" xmlns:o=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\"\r\n " +
"xmlns:x=\"urn:schemas- microsoft-com:office:" +
"excel\"\r\n xmlns:ss=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:" +
"office:spreadsheet\">\r\n <Styles>\r\n " +
"<Style ss:ID=\"Default\" ss:Name=\"Normal\">\r\n " +
"<Alignment ss:Vertical=\"Bottom\"/>\r\n <Borders/>" +
"\r\n <Font/>\r\n <Interior/>\r\n <NumberFormat/>" +
"\r\n <Protection/>\r\n </Style>\r\n " +
"<Style ss:ID=\"BoldColumn\">\r\n <Font " +
"x:Family=\"Swiss\" ss:Bold=\"1\"/>\r\n </Style>\r\n " +
"<Style ss:ID=\"StringLiteral\">\r\n <NumberFormat" +
" ss:Format=\"@\"/>\r\n </Style>\r\n <Style " +
"ss:ID=\"Decimal\">\r\n <NumberFormat " +
"ss:Format=\"0.0000\"/>\r\n </Style>\r\n " +
"<Style ss:ID=\"Integer\">\r\n <NumberFormat " +
"ss:Format=\"0\"/>\r\n </Style>\r\n <Style " +
"ss:ID=\"DateLiteral\">\r\n <NumberFormat " +
"ss:Format=\"mm/dd/yyyy;@\"/>\r\n </Style>\r\n " +
"</Styles>\r\n ";
System.IO.StreamWriter excelDoc = null;
excelDoc = new System.IO.StreamWriter(fileName);
int sheetCount = 1;
excelDoc.Write(startExcelXML);
foreach (DataTable table in source.Tables)
{
int rowCount = 0;
excelDoc.Write("<Worksheet ss:Name=\"" + table.TableName + "\">");
excelDoc.Write("<Table>");
excelDoc.Write("<Row>");
for (int x = 0; x < table.Columns.Count; x++)
{
excelDoc.Write("<Cell ss:StyleID=\"BoldColumn\"><Data ss:Type=\"String\">");
excelDoc.Write(table.Columns[x].ColumnName);
excelDoc.Write("</Data></Cell>");
}
excelDoc.Write("</Row>");
foreach (DataRow x in table.Rows)
{
rowCount++;
//if the number of rows is > 64000 create a new page to continue output
if (rowCount == 64000)
{
rowCount = 0;
sheetCount++;
excelDoc.Write("</Table>");
excelDoc.Write(" </Worksheet>");
excelDoc.Write("<Worksheet ss:Name=\"" + table.TableName + "\">");
excelDoc.Write("<Table>");
}
excelDoc.Write("<Row>"); //ID=" + rowCount + "
for (int y = 0; y < table.Columns.Count; y++)
{
System.Type rowType;
rowType = x[y].GetType();
switch (rowType.ToString())
{
case "System.String":
string XMLstring = x[y].ToString();
XMLstring = XMLstring.Trim();
XMLstring = XMLstring.Replace("&", "&");
XMLstring = XMLstring.Replace(">", ">");
XMLstring = XMLstring.Replace("<", "<");
excelDoc.Write("<Cell ss:StyleID=\"StringLiteral\">" +
"<Data ss:Type=\"String\">");
excelDoc.Write(XMLstring);
excelDoc.Write("</Data></Cell>");
break;
case "System.DateTime":
//Excel has a specific Date Format of YYYY-MM-DD followed by
//the letter 'T' then hh:mm:sss.lll Example 2005-01-31T24:01:21.000
//The Following Code puts the date stored in XMLDate
//to the format above
DateTime XMLDate = (DateTime)x[y];
string XMLDatetoString = ""; //Excel Converted Date
XMLDatetoString = XMLDate.Year.ToString() +
"-" +
(XMLDate.Month < 10 ? "0" +
XMLDate.Month.ToString() : XMLDate.Month.ToString()) +
"-" +
(XMLDate.Day < 10 ? "0" +
XMLDate.Day.ToString() : XMLDate.Day.ToString()) +
"T" +
(XMLDate.Hour < 10 ? "0" +
XMLDate.Hour.ToString() : XMLDate.Hour.ToString()) +
":" +
(XMLDate.Minute < 10 ? "0" +
XMLDate.Minute.ToString() : XMLDate.Minute.ToString()) +
":" +
(XMLDate.Second < 10 ? "0" +
XMLDate.Second.ToString() : XMLDate.Second.ToString()) +
".000";
excelDoc.Write("<Cell ss:StyleID=\"DateLiteral\">" +
"<Data ss:Type=\"DateTime\">");
excelDoc.Write(XMLDatetoString);
excelDoc.Write("</Data></Cell>");
break;
case "System.Boolean":
excelDoc.Write("<Cell ss:StyleID=\"StringLiteral\">" +
"<Data ss:Type=\"String\">");
excelDoc.Write(x[y].ToString());
excelDoc.Write("</Data></Cell>");
break;
case "System.Int16":
case "System.Int32":
case "System.Int64":
case "System.Byte":
excelDoc.Write("<Cell ss:StyleID=\"Integer\">" +
"<Data ss:Type=\"Number\">");
excelDoc.Write(x[y].ToString());
excelDoc.Write("</Data></Cell>");
break;
case "System.Decimal":
case "System.Double":
excelDoc.Write("<Cell ss:StyleID=\"Decimal\">" +
"<Data ss:Type=\"Number\">");
excelDoc.Write(x[y].ToString());
excelDoc.Write("</Data></Cell>");
break;
case "System.DBNull":
excelDoc.Write("<Cell ss:StyleID=\"StringLiteral\">" +
"<Data ss:Type=\"String\">");
excelDoc.Write("");
excelDoc.Write("</Data></Cell>");
break;
default:
throw (new Exception(rowType.ToString() + " not handled."));
}
}
excelDoc.Write("</Row>");
}
excelDoc.Write("</Table>");
excelDoc.Write(" </Worksheet>");
sheetCount++;
}
excelDoc.Write(endExcelXML);
excelDoc.Close();
}
